shashlick

English

Noun

shashlick (countable and uncountable, plural shashlicks)

1. Alternative spelling of shashlik
   • 1992, Philip Glazebrook, “Tashkent”, in Journey to Khiva: A Writer’s Search for Central Asia, New York, N.Y.: Kodansha America, Inc., published 1994, →ISBN, page 89:

     So tight a canopy does the trees’ foliage make that you can scarcely see the tall buildings – the statues’ heads, too, are mercifully hidden in the leaves – whilst the quieter streets I walked through rang with footsteps and talk that evening, and smelt of shashlick broiling on smoky fires.